3 Tools to Align with Your Power

My friend and colleague, Cindy Silbert, inspired me with her recent article on manifesting your desires because she talks about alignment from a different angle–aligning yourself with the flow and power of the universe. Pilates provides an excellent way to align your mind with your body. Here are 3 additional tools to un-clutter your mind and make space to manifest everything you desire. Enjoy!

3 Ways to Manifest Your True Desires

-By Cindy Silbert

Cindy Silbert

When things are not quite showing up as fast as you’d like or in a way that is unlike what you’ve imagined, a normal reaction is to try harder, meditate more, or tell the Universe what you want again, again and again (as if it didn’t hear you the first time!).

According the dictionary, manifesting is the act of revealing, making evident or clear. Manifesting is the process of allowing what you desire to become evident to you and, through the process of alignment, allowing your desires to become real evidence in your life. On any given day we’re faced with all sorts of evidence about what we’ve managed to manifest in our life. Sometimes the evidence is exactly what we wanted and other times – not so much!

The temptation is to think that we did something wrong or need to try harder. As you attach to the evidence of what you don’t want, you do three things: 1) Become hooked and out of alignment 2) Expand what you don’t want by resisting it and 3) Constrict the space and energy around you so that the Universe literally cannot co-create with you. The Universe needs space to deliver something new! When you are attached to any outcome, even if it your truest and deepest desire, you are “not allowing” the Universe to deliver it to you. Your desires are there waiting but unable to manifest into your life experience because the flow of energy, the channel of deliver, is literally constricted.

The vibration we feel tells us if we’re in alignment or not. We can’t think our way into alignment we have to feel our way there. When we come into alignment with our true desires, little-by-little our thoughts, actions and expression become totally aligned with what we want. Alignment allows us to naturally release resistance and allow flow of energy, resonance with our desires and manifestation from the Universe. When we over think, over intend or put our attention on the absence of our desires such as calculating down to the minute how long it’s been since we requested what we wanted and the fact that it hasn’t shown up – we are pushing, forcing or positive thinking our way into alignment which creates resistance telling the Universe we DON’T want what we really DO want.

Here are three ways you can increase your vibration and manifest your true desires.

1. Clarity – If you are not clear, vacillating between what you don’t want and what you do want or bouncing from worry to certainty, chances are you’re living in gray matter with a flat-lined vibration. Living in the gray creates the experience of two steps forward and one step back, sabotage, vicious cycles or inching toward your goals but not quite breaking through. When you gain clarity, you move from gray to black and white on your way to manifesting your desires and in full living color. If you try to manifest from gray it only creates more shades of gray. It’s essential to get to black and white clarity first. You can create clarity by using this test, “If it’s not a yes, it’s a no.” Clean out your mental closets, to do list and even dreams with this test. Make a list of anything causing confusion, not manifesting, waiting you down, and robbing your energy or just plain annoying you. Go through each item and ask if it’s a “yes” or a “no”. The next step takes courage. Clear, complete or let go of everything that is not a “yes” – even if it’s a dream. Many times our dreams become something we lug forward from year to year. Letting go of the heaviness of an unfulfilled dream can give you a new lease on life and send your vibration off the charts.

2. Alignment – Manifestation happens when your physical vibration resonates with your true desires (like a symphony!). When you connect with your heart’s desires, you can feel a shift in your physical vibration. You CAN’T create a positive vibration through forced thought (in that action there is resistance to what you don’t want and thus you will create it). You can create natural resonance (an explosion of vibration when two like energies align) when you connect with thoughts or what we call “aligning statements” that are aligned with or capture your true desires to the point where you can feel yourself align within. This alignment creates a simultaneous release of energy and increased vibration. Fear, worry and self-doubt are untruths that take you out of alignment and create resistance or a barrier between you and your natural resonance. Alignment and resonance comes naturally as you detach from or clear what is untrue (that false place you’ve been entrapped in or living from).

3. Non-Attachment – Manifesting is in many ways counterintuitive to our minds and certainly our egos. True manifesting occurs when we manage to un-think, un-attach, un-do and let go. True manifesting requires you to find feminine power in feeling vulnerable and trust in your worthiness of receiving what you truly want from the masculine energy of the Universe. Practice non-attachment by noticing (without judging, measuring or attaching to) everything in your life especially the evidence of what you don’t want showing up. Breathe and open to possibility feeling energy and space open up around you. Fill the space with your aligning statements, doing something joyful or getting excited about what you’re creating in your life.

For more of Cindy’s practices and tools, check out www.BringUtoLife.com

Lovin’ On YOU!

Debbie Lichter, Pin Up Girl Pilates, San Diego, CA

New Year’s is here—there won’t be a better time to start taking care of YOU. But for many of us, we don’t know what that means. We’re so used to working our tails off, trying to please everyone around us and being hyper critical of our shortcomings that we don’t exactly know how to be loving, generous and caring to ourselves. 

I spent the better part of this year trying to uncover those actions that spelled L-O-V-E to my soul and I’ve shared them with you below. What does your list look like? How do you ensure you’re giving yourself warm, fuzzy shots of love all day? 

As we step into 2010, I challenge you to identify your “Love Myself” list, and stick to it for a solid week. Then check in with yourself and notice what’s different about you  

Deb’s Top 5 Daily ‘Loving’ Actions

1. Meditating. It took me a long time to realize that devoting time each day to be quiet and reflective is perhaps the most productive and loving thing I can do for myself. Now I wake up early to get in 30min-1hr meditations in before I start my day.
2. Teaching. Teaching people how to get smarter, stronger and sexier in their bodies through Pilates is hands-down the most fulfilling act of my day. I feel big gushes of love when I teach.
3. Learning. I like to remain open to learn something new every day. It makes me feel connected with the Big Cosmic Bank of Universal Intelligence. And that connection comforts me.
4. Reading. I read, usually before bedtime. It feels so decadent to slip into bed with a good book and hot cup of tea. This is soul food–yum J
5. Exercising. I move every day. This doesn’t mean I do a hardcore workout every day. (I do a hard core workout about 2-3 times a week). This just means I find time to be in my body and be physical—whether it’s a walk around the block, a 10 minute routine on the Pilates reformer or a stretching session, I make time to connect with my body. 

What does your list look like?

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Get What You Want: Create S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Debbie Lichter, Pin Up Girl Pilates, San Diego, CA

I’m guilty. I catch myself making vague health & fitness goals, like “I want to increase my cardio” or “I want to have more balance in my life.”  I think that I’m setting goals, but what I’m really doing is setting myself up for failure. Why? Because unless a goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely, it’s not going to happen. 

Think about shopping. Sometimes you go to the mall and just sort of wander around, glancing at price tags and trying things on. You may find something; you may not. And other times, you know you need some kick-ass stilettos to wear tonight, and you stop at nothing to find the perfect pair. 

In the first scenario, you don’t have a clear goal in mind. You haven’t identified what you want, so you can’t really get what you want. And, the slightest distraction will have you off your path in no time. Like the famous quote goes, “If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.” -Seneca 

When it comes to setting fitness goals, set YOURSELF up for success with S.M.A.R.T. goals. Use the “Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals” worksheet below to identify exactly what you want for 2010.

Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

Specific - A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions:

Who:       Who is involved?
What:     What do I want to accomplish?
Where:   Identify a location.
When:     Establish a time frame.
Which:    Identify requirements and constraints.
Why:        Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.

EXAMPLE:    A general goal would be, “Get in shape.” But a specific goal would say, “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week.” 

Measurable - Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set. When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs you on to continued effort required to reach your goal.

To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as……How much? How many? How will I know when it is accomplished? 

Attainable – When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals.

You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that may have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. When you list your goals you build your self-image. You see yourself as worthy of these goals, and develop the traits and personality that allow you to possess them. 

Realistic – To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be. But be sure that every goal represents substantial progress. A high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Some of the hardest jobs you ever accomplished actually seem easy simply because they were a labor of love.

Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be accomplished. Additional ways to know if your goal is realistic is to determine if you have accomplished anything similar in the past or ask yourself what conditions would have to exist to accomplish this goal. 

Timely – A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. If you want to lose 10 lbs, when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal.

T can also stand for Tangible – A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the senses, that is, taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing. When your goal is tangible you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable and thus attainable.

 **“Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals” article written by Top Achievement founder Gene Donohue.  

And stay tuned for some S.M.A.R.T. Mind & Body Transformation programs from Pin-up Girl Pilates!

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Debbie Lichter, Pin Up Girl Pilates, San Diego, CA

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